Sens. Chriss Dodd (D-Conn.) and Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) have been working together to craft a bipartisan bill for months now. Americans favor the passage of a financial reform bill by nearly two-thirds, according to a recent poll.

Poll: 65% back financial reform

Nearly two-thirds of Americans support stricter regulation of financial institutions, according to a new ABC News/Washington Post poll out Monday.

Sixty-five percent of the 1,001 adults surveyed nationwide said they support regulatory reform, while 31 percent oppose it.

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The number represents a slight uptick since February – and actually 11 percentage points lower than last year – but serves as a reminder that the anticipated Senate vote Monday on financial reform will reverberate.

Democratic and Republican Senate leaders indicated over the weekend that no deal has yet been reached on regulatory reform, but expressed optimism that would could be agreed to.

“I don't believe we'll have a deal today,” Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), the top Republican on the Banking Committee, said Monday on ABC's “Good Morning America.”

“I believe we're going to get a good bill, but that's what we want, we want a strong bill,” Shelby said.

While Republicans running on a small government mantel agree that the general idea of financial reform is widely popular, they see the current bill as an overreach, imposing burdensome regulations on business. The poll showed though that the Republican argument may not be wholly registering amidst the vehemence towards Wall Street.

Fifty-nine percent said in the poll that they support “increasing federal oversight of the way banks and other financial companies make consumer loans, such as mortgages and auto loans, and issue credit cards.”

The survey was conducted April 22-25 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.